Alert archive / Iowa / Mesoscale Discussions / 2016
Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, December 2016
2 mesoscale discussions in December 2016. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in December 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 2
- Busiest day
- December 23, 20161 mesoscale discussions
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 3:48 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Audubon, Boone, Bremer, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Cass, Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page and 2 more | 2 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Audubon County1
- Boone County1
- Bremer County1
- Buena Vista County1
- Butler County1
- Calhoun County1
- Carroll County1
- Cerro Gordo County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chickasaw County1
- Clay County1
- Crawford County1
- Emmet County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Greene County1
- Hamilton County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Harrison County1
- Howard County1
- Humboldt County1
- Ida County1
- Kossuth County1
- Mitchell County1
- Monona County1
- Palo Alto County1
- Pocahontas County1
- Sac County1
- Shelby County1
- Webster County1
- Winnebago County1
- Woodbury County1
- Worth County1
- Wright County1
- Adams County1
- Cass County1
- Fremont County1
- Mills County1
- Montgomery County1
3 more counties
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.